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  • Partisan-Electionitis

    Partisan-Electionitis

    This is one of my facebook comments about a chap who is a party member…. Spot on J**. D**** is increasingly succumbing to a disease known as partisan-electionitis. In this troubling condition, the sufferer starts by declaring an allegiance to a party but then swiftly...

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  • Why do we tax public sector workers?

    Why do we tax public sector workers?

    This occured to me the other day: As the public sector HAS no money but what it takes from the private sector, is it not the case that applying tax to  public sector workers  necessarilly creates more public sector jobs to oversee the collection, expanding the...

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  • Fun with hypocrisy #1 in an occaisional series

    Fun with hypocrisy #1 in an occaisional series

    Tom Harris has, gamely, made a post about the sinister Caroline Lucas and her tenuous connection with science or reality. Sadly, he didn’t mention her desired population of the UK which is substantially lower than at present, nor how she intended to reduce the number...

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  • Assisted Dying on Conservative Home

    Assisted Dying on Conservative Home

    There’s a niggly article on Conservative Home poo-poohing the idea of legalised assisted suicide with the largely fallacious argument about hypothetical abuse  and an emotive and innaccurate comparisson with abortion. Below is my comment: I have multiple sclerosis and it is quite conceivable that I...

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  • And more comments…

    And more comments…

    Over on Letters From A Tory (LFAT), there’s a great letter on ‘Spot the terrorist’ and the fruity extensions our Labour masters are making to definitions of extremism. This time, however, they’ve chosen to classify the politically driven, faith-fuelled antics of environmentalists as potentially violent...

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  • Why the left is wrong…

    Why the left is wrong…

    Over on the usually sensible Harry’s Place, a post has appeared bemoaning the fact that our government can’t freeze alleged terrorist suspect’s assets at will because they didn’t bother with that inconvenient process of having a law passed by Parliament.  Socialists ALWAYS have a soft...

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  • Tom Harris & Electoral Reform

    Tom Harris & Electoral Reform

    There’s an interesting (ish!) post from Tom Harris about why Electoral Reform is a rubbish idea: http://www.tomharris.org.uk/2010/01/18/take-your-pick-a-sense-of-proportion-or-electoral-reform Naturally, I demurred and posted the following comment that I reproduce for you here as the first of an irregular series of comment reposts… Sadly, Tom, you oppose...

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